It’s Friday again, so let’s look at what’s interesting around the world. From C/net, we see that Australia is teaching children about climate change, like forest fires and erosion ,through the use of Minecraft. The Australian Department of Education has given schools free access to Minecraft to create curriculum to teach these topics to great effect. The programs also allowed the kids to create and build solutions to geographical issues like erosion, pollution, urban planning and more. An Australian insurance company also launched a Minecraft mod game called Climate Warriors, a free interactive game designed to teach children as young as 7 how to protect themselves and their homes from bushfires.

We at ThinkLab laud these great efforts to gamify learning but we ask why should children have all the fun? We can also use Minecraft to learn new ideas and concepts for adults and be more open to using games and gamified techniques which have already proven to be not only engaging to all age groups but also helps learners in internalising the concepts and learning from them.

https://www.cnet.com/news/features/how-minecraft-is-teaching-kids-to-face-the-threat-of-climate-change